#(just in case anyone has that blacklisted)

[lietpolski]

i love the use of human names in hetalia, because they can have such different meanings for different nations!! for younger nations like alfred, it's easy. it's a sign of closeness or endearment. he's always been "alfred f jones" the way he's always been "america", after all. but what about the older nations? denmark and norway smirking at each other over public meetings, calling each other their silly human names they have to use now to "blend in" with the humans. england learning to switch to arthur and finding that he weirdly likes it, likes the pressure it takes off his shoulders. him and france using each other's names like dennor do, at first, teasingly, like "ooh look at us pretending to be mortal little humans who haven't been fighting each other for centuries", but then it grows fonder, softer, less about the joke of "francis" and "arthur" and more about real intimacy. nations who use their names as a symbol of resistance and national pride, liet's happiness at being tolys, distinctly lithuanian, distinctly him after centuries of his language being demeaned, and then decades of it being prohibited in russia's household. nations using human names to mock and hurt each other after a betrayal, a nod to the intimacy they used to share. human names!!

[valflaame]

He closes his eyes, lets her wipe his face. There is a pause, a hitch in his throat, but he does not dwell on it; the pain he's seen behind her eyes is not something he can just ignore.

( was he too cruel to his wife? to show her what she's lost, and destroy it like it means nothing? )

He cannot think about that. What's done is done, the bones lay upon the gravel and the useless weapons lay discarded. There is only the future, there is no looking back and wondering about what could have been.

He opens his eyes and looks at her, but cannot bring himself to touch her cheek. He feels like his skin may very well crack and burn and split if he so much as holds her. Or worse, that he might ruin her in some manner or another, she may not be his, may not be kind and gentle should he poison her in this moment.

"Deirdre," he says instead, and steps back just a little. "You are not too soft."

He looks down at her hands and wants to reach out. He doesn't. So soft and gentle is she, just as he would keep her. "You are how you are meant to be. And I will protect you and your innocence until my dying breath."

Red Camellias

[geneticdriftwood]

fuck, man. just read nightwing vol. 2 #93 and it really is exactly as horrible as everyone says.

and it's released the same month as outsiders 2003 #12, where helena leaves the team, with these parting words to roy:

(outsiders 2003 #12)

like yeah no shit helena!!! blockbuster has been running around bludhaven killing people dick cares about specifically to torture him! telling him that he'll never stop, that by ever allowing himself any human connection he'll be condemning that person to die!

(nightwing vol. 2 #93)

even before this he was blaming himself for donna's death and trying to self isolate. and roy has spent the last three months off the team to recover from getting shot in the chest a bunch, so he hasn't been around to clock just how bad dick's mental health has gotten and try to pull him out of it. of course he isn't letting himself get close to anyone.

[ask-meowscarada]

Happy Halloween, adventurers!

(( I forgot tumblr makes wide images crunchy so please click to view the art in full!

Halloween is really just my excuse to make my characters cosplay as whatever my current interest is ))

[planetary]

[eternitas]

[Choose any character you want!] ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼ "Do you want to make a contract with me to become a magical girl? I can grant you any wish your heart desires!"

@einsatzzz (in case your notifications aren't triggered- happens to me sometimes)

EIN WHAT HAVE U DONE TO ME THIS ANSWER HAS CONSUMED SO MANY DAYS OF MY LIFE

But it also gave me am lot of ways to improve on my art and learn to work with digital art so thank you for sending this in! I actually treated this as a life advice question for squad 4 because it was the funniest in my head! Hope you like the answer!

Trigger warning for blood, guns and creepy imagery

Referenced and partially traced with the help of @kyuji

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Today too Squad 4 continues to pursue their goals through their own strength. (And Today too, Sergey is very protective of his best friend.)

[ssecond-hand-faith]

This thing was freaking me out and the dog kept trying to eat it so I trapped it under a glass

[ach-sss-no]

It is no longer the Christmas season so I am posting something that is not festive

For @badthingshappenbingo:

Title: Death's Head Prompt: grief/mourning Fandom: LOTR (weird au) Fic is here

[powderflower]

got distracted and made sebastian a bear again.

[dyouknowwhatimean-archive]

honestly I’d just like to hear any of your thoughts on euphoria because everyone I hear that talks about euphoria kind of sucks and doesn’t discuss it in an interesting way

okay so what interests me the most about euphoria is obviously nate, jules and cal's storyline. nate and cal's relationship is possibly the most interesting and layered exploration of an unconsumated incestuous relationship i've ever seen on tv in my life. nate is clearly very traumatized by having seen his dad's porno tapes and often puts himself in the place of his victims, both the extents he takes his body to, and his taste in women are very influenced by all of this plus the idea of masculinity his dad enforces while also nate tries not to be like his dad (gay).

i also don't wanna get too much into it but nate's relationship with his mom is very interesting to me too. when cal leaves the house in s2 there's this scene in which nate's mom starts calling nate "the man of the house" and starts sort of flirting with him, i can't remember if she's drunk.

on the other hand nate is of course an abuser and a rapist himself, his relationship with cassie might be more interesting to me in that sense than his relationship with jules or with maddy if only because of how much the audience completely turned to hating cassie and refused to see her as the victim there. but his relationship with jules is of course abusive too, and again very tied to cal himself. it's different tho cause most of it happens online (i can't remember if they use grindr the entire time? but it's gotta be either that or instagram or texting or something) and then a lot of it only in jules' mind. still there's examples of lovebombing and manipulation, and of course he physically threatens her when they finally meet in person.

this is like, my favorite part of the show, then again it's still buried under one thousand million layers of sam levinson transphobia and misogyny. jules' character suffered a lot of whatever the opposite of character development is in s2 too. in the special episode she accepts herself and comes out as a lesbian, just to hook up with a guy who felt like a "how to be a chaser 101 manual for dummies" in s2. and, in a show where they're all teenagers allowed to make mistakes, the audience somehow decided that she was an irredeemable monster for cheating on rue, which. whatever. who knows if rue and her ever even defined the relationship. but that's not the point.

i also really like the way euphoria handles drug addiction, for all the shit it gets about how it's "unrealistic" i personally think it's very genuine there (it's based on levinson's personal experiences, at the end of the day) and i think it's really well done, i never understood that specific criticism

[capricioussuns]

Head in hands clancy really is pulling me back into another twenty one pilots era

[interruptingkau]

B

[thaliagrayce]

i've been talking abt my voltron playlists and @iveofficiallygonemad asked to hear them and i want to share with anybody who wants!! i know they're not perfect, i'm working on them & trying to make them better. if you have any recommendations for any of them, let me know!! there's like A Lot and i want to give a lil explanation for most of them, so i'm putting them under the cut ^-^

SO first i have my favorite one <3 it's just. all of them. it's the whole team. it's a mess and it's a bunch of different genres because it's them fighting over the aux cord on a road trip. it's them trying to make each other laugh or annoy each other or play something catchy enough it will infect everyone in the vicinity with brain worms.

Hunk: i'm pretty happy with my Hunk playlist! chill vibes. he strikes me as the kind of guy who listens to calm music to try to find his own calm, and that's what i got here :)

Pidge: this is messier and less cohesive than my usual playlist because frankly i think pidge would have a shit taste in music. all over the board. this is a mix of meme songs and 8-bit covers and vocaloid and stuff that i think pidge would genuinely connect with, and i think pidge listens to all their music on shuffle without any regards for genre or mood because they're a gremlin. nobody gives pidge sole control of the aux.

Coran hears 80's music for the first time and loses his mind. He thinks ABBA is humanity's single greatest achievement.

Lance: i have ideas about where I'm going with this but haven't really settled yet. Lance seems like the kind of boy that loves to dance (is that canon? i forgot) so most of these are Bops That Make You Move in some way or another. he likes to present an upbeat face to the world, so there's no angsting in this playlist! we are clinging to the things that make us happy with both hands until our knuckles turn white!

Keith: i'm gonna be honest. i made him a playlist but i honestly don't think he cares about music very much. it's very important to some people! he's just not one of them! i haven't cracked this playlist open in a while but i'm pretty sure it's full of songs that i think he would conceivably train/work out to.

Shiro: this playlist involves the dumbest headcanon i have for shiro that has just not left me alone since i first thought of it. most of the playlist reflects the fact that he had an emo phase in middle school (that one isn't a headcanon, you just have to look at him to know) but BUT there are a few songs on here that are on here because. little known fact. he also went through a Twilight phase that he told nobody about. (keith knows. keith was there.) he has the entire twilight soundtrack memorized. he moved past the story but the music stays forever. he used to daydream about slow dancing to Flightless Bird, American Mouth. the first time Coran mentions that they have to avoid a place because there's a supermassive black hole there, he has to bite his tongue in order to keep a straight face. do NOT ask me why i believe this so wholeheartedly.

Allura's playlist sucks right now. I think it's because in my heart of hearts i know that, were she on earth today, she would go fucking nuts for taylor swift. i have ambivalent feelings for taylor swift. i cannot do allura justice like this. if you see my vision and have recs as to what might actually fit her, PLEASE.

Klance: i haven't done it yet but i'm gonna go through this and sort it to be a sort of progression of their relationship, starting with the more combative Rivalry songs, then slipping into "oh shit oh shit" songs, then maybe ending on the more lighthearted purely romantic songs <3

(i have two songs in a shallura playlist which does not at all encapsulate how much i'm obsessed with them. the tiny cop inside my head is just constantly screaming at me that i'm going to get yelled at for liking shallura. i am going to kill the cop inside my head.)

[mic-check-stims]

How it feels making content for a section of tumblr that's built on the backbone of the age regressor community

[bloodglucose]

these 4.7 leaks have convinced me i NEED to pull Siegwinne now. thats my co-worker

[disaster-vampire]

just realised i probably have everything i'd need to cosplay misa amane in my closet already because she's serving goth cunt and so am i